John Locke Junior Prize Question 4 Video 1 (Part 1 of 3)
In this clip, our Cambridge tutor gives an overview of how lessons with VIPTutors can teach you different approaches to considering questions necessary to succeed in the JL Prize.
Ready to start your John Locke Essay Competition preparation? Visit www.viptutors.co now and study under the guidance of our Oxbridge and Ivy League School tutors.
You must think quickly! The submission deadline will end on June 30, 2024.
VIPTutors can help you submit your essay! Reach us via WhatsApp at +44 20 8638 6241 or through email at partners@viptutors.co.
Ready to start your John Locke Essay Competition preparation? Visit www.viptutors.co now and study under the guidance of our Oxbridge and Ivy League School tutors.
You must think quickly! The submission deadline will end on June 30, 2024.
VIPTutors can help you submit your essay! Reach us via WhatsApp at +44 20 8638 6241 or through email at partners@viptutors.co.
Transcript
00:00Okay, so first, what are these lessons going to do? So they're mostly designed to help you consider this question and to think about it in a sophisticated manner, okay?
00:15Because it might be the first time you guys in your life have ever had a question with no syllabus behind it.
00:26No sort of specific examples that they want you to use, where it's very open ended and you can take it in any direction you want.
00:40And that makes it in some ways a bit easier because the key thing is to focus on what you're interested in.
00:48Because then you'll write more interesting essays on it.
00:52But it's also a bit harder because the only essays that will do really well are the ones that really think about the question and answer it in a way that is not simply interesting,
01:09but that goes a little bit deeper into an answer rather than simply, for instance, a more sort of straightforward answer here,
01:24might simply be because schools, governments run schools because education is a right for everyone, whereas having luxury food is not a right for everyone, or because food is cheaper.
01:43Those would be two very simple answers, but we need to do a bit more thinking to do really well.
01:54So then I also want to give you the tools and the ideas that will help you formulate your own answer.
02:03For the junior prize, the readings are not as important. When you guys come to do the senior prize, the main prize,
02:13that's when readings and mentioning lots of other texts and things is really, really important.
02:20It is good if you can start by mentioning some readings and we'll talk more about this in lecture six.
02:29But what I'm going to do is recommend sort of articles and stuff in real sort of academic work and for the main prize.
02:37Using online articles is not great because they can be a little bit unreliable.
02:46What I'm doing is trying to only sort of give you guys links to articles that I think are pretty reliable from trusted sources like New York Times,
02:56Washington Post, The Guardian is OK, BBC News is OK. So I try to do that.
03:07OK, and then examples. And I'm not saying you have to use these examples.
03:11There's an almost endless list of examples you can use to answer questions.
03:18So definitely don't think you have to use the ones that I use, but I'm going to use them to help explain some of the points we discuss.